Our History: Reporter for The Journal recalls World War II days

12:26 AM,
May 26, 2014

John Andrew Prime

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John Andrew Prime

Memorial Day is a fitting time to remember valiant peers, be they entities or people, and recent emails from a reader produced memories of Shreveport's media past worth sharing on this date.

Glenda Fillible, of Oregon, is the daughter of Lonnie Gene Vining, who worked as a reporter for the late Shreveport Journal in the 1940s. The Journal published from 1897 to 1991, and continued as an independent editorial page in The Times from 1991 to late 1999. There was a friendly rivavly between The Times and the Journal, and even today several former Journal staffers are key players at The Times.